24 posts tagged “qotd”

What's your favorite song with "America" or "USA" in the title? Bonus points if you share it with us.

If by 'favourite', you mean 'do a quick search in itunes for that string, and pick the one from 22 years ago that still sounds relevant'. 

Why do you blog?
Submitted by littleduckling.

I really have no idea anymore.

How many houses have you lived in? How is where you live now different from where you grew up?

OK, this could take a while...

2 in the UK
2 in Canada in '85
4 in Australia '87 - 1999
2 in Canada in 2000
and 2 in Australia since

so that's...12 then.  Unless I'm missing one or two somewhere.

Damnit, I am.  That crappy sharehouse in Braddon.  That's 13 then.

How many pair of shoes do you have? Out of those pairs, how many do you wear more than a few times a year?
Submitted by fightinggale.

You know what?  Thinking about it, I now have an embarrasingly large collection of shoes.  There's a couple of places around here that sell Converse pretty cheap, so I've picked up 4 pairs of them recently (red high tops, green low tops, black laceless ones, and green/camouflage 'double shoe' thingies)

Plus a couple of cheap sneakers, some walking shoes I got cheap in the UK, and a pair of Colorado boots.  And probably some shiny black shoes for fancy.

6 months ago though, I think I only had the boots and the red high tops.

Flickr pro users can now upload 90 second videos which has members complaining about everything from slowing Flickr down, lack of community consultation, and diminishing Flickr's inital purpose: photography. What do you think -- Do you support video on Flickr?

I do - I think it's good to be able to upload photos and videos of the same events at the same time and in the same place.  Also, limiting it to Pro users should cut down on crappy spam vids that infest YouTube and the like.

And here's the first video I've uploaded, from our last trip to Canada:

What was the #1 song on the radio when you were born?

According to the all-knowing wikipedia:

in Australia: Heart of Glass by Blondie
in the UK: Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel
and in the US: Knock on Wood by Amii Stewart

Looks like I never uploaded that cover of Heart of Glass by Mystery Machine, so that'll have to wait until I get home.

If you could teleport to any place in the world right this second, where would you go?

Back to bed.  Fuck this Monday morning shit.

Do you think real love can last throughout any distance, or will long distance end most relationships? 
Submitted by Miss Joy.

Hells yes it can last. 10 years ago: 12973 km apart.  Now: married.  Take that, distance.

Do you own all the albums of any particular musical artist or group? Who?
Submitted by dutterman.

I've got every Mogwai album, I think.

And nearly every Something For Kate album, except for the new Best Of.  Which probably doesn't count as an album, really.

And all the Lucksmiths albums, unless they released one recently without me noticing. (oh, there's a b-side compilation out next month!)

Between me and Chantal, we've got all the Belle & Sebastian albums, and most of the singles.

My sister owns everything Kenickie ever released, which is quite a feat.  I've just got both their albums, a few singles, and the early EPs on vinyl.

And there are dozens of bands that have only released two or three albums that I have a full set of.

Which professional athlete in any sport has the most star power?

"I know those words, but that signquestion makes no sense."